November 2011 Check In

Washuntara’s North American Adventure goes well, with simple happiness and good, strong teachings abounding.

This month, he’s been writing new songs in Hollywood, and also enjoying the practice of meditation with his Californian sangha. The sangha (a Buddhist word for family) provides a balance that is essential when navigating the city of the angels.

Washuntara has also trekked to the summit of North Carolina’s Great Smoky Mountains, bringing music and stories to the powerful Rites of Passage gathering offered by grandfathers Kedar Brown and Jon Rousseau.

Throughout the month, the muse kept Washuntara busy co-creating in Nashville with song angels Jana Stanfield and Karen Taylor-Good. Both of these sisters are legendary and are vibrant parts of Nashville’s song-line lineage. The perfect alchemy of words and melodies are now dancing in the creative fire. Watch this space!

A house concert on October 16 was held in honor of Washuntara’s beloved young friend Wilson Waters Forrester, who died tragically in April this year. Song For Wilson, written by Jana Stanfield/Washuntara, was fittingly performed in front of Wilson’s alter as the final song of the night.

Currently, Washuntara and his goddaughter Margret are slowly walking between the emerald seas and diamond white dunes of the Gulf of Mexico … such good medicine for the spirit. These golden days will soon be a memory as Washuntara heads away to the cold and lovely northern regions of the USA for most of November.

Brrrrrrrrrrr … see you soon, Wisconsin!

Please do not let your happiness be affected
by the rise and fall of emotions

– Washuntara